Dimitrios Vernardakis

Demetrios Bernardakis (, Dimitrios Vernardakis, also transliterated Dimitrios Bernardakis; 3 December 1833 – 25 January 1907 ) was a polymath writer and Professor of History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Biographical sketch He was born at Agia Marina, Lesbos (just south of Mytilene). His father was Nikolaos Vernardakis, originally from Crete, while his mother was Melissini, of the Trantalis family. His brothers were the learned Athanasios Bernardakis and Gregorios Bernardakis. and 1905 ) for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Selected works

Theatrical Μαρία Δοξαπατρή (Maria Doxapatri 1857) Κυψελίδαι (The Beehive, 1858) Μερόπη (Merope, 1865) Ευφροσύνη (Euphrosyne, 1876) Φαύστα (Fausta, 1893) Αντιόπη (Antiope, 1895) Νικηφόρος Φωκάς (Nicephorus Phocas, 1905)

Linguistic Ελληνική Γραμματική εις χρήσιν των Ελληνικών σχολείων (Greek Grammar for use in Greek schools, 1864–1865) Ψευδαττικισμού έλεγχος (The control of illusion, 1884)

Historical Γενική Ιστορία (General History, 1867)

Theological

Ιερά Κατήχησις (Sacred Catechisis, endorsed in 1872 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as the best available biblical catechesis recommended for schooldchildren)